Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
DAILY HERALD.
RAILROAD NOTES.

r.e.vesttnx Items About Excur-
sioms and other Matters.
sneciaI Sunset route excursion
car left this city Yesterday morning
for New Orleans and the East with u
seiect party OF excurslonists.
s. L. Carey and DIR. W. b. May,
travelling passenger agents OF the
southern Pacific company, went north
to-day with special party OF excur-
s;,n;sts from Boston and New York.
The Southern Pacific Company is
oonstructing stock track from l..
Sentous & Co.'S. stock yards, near
Cienega Station, on the Los Angeles
and independence branch.
Messrs. Cotteral & Co., the excur-
sion managers, sent one carload OF
people that came on their excursion
Yesterday to Cotton, where some OF
them will settle and others go to Elsl-
more and San Diego. They were un-
der the able management OF Mr..
Henry Isaacs.
On the 5th instvnt large excursion
will leave Ell Paso under control OF
the Missouri Pacific, and will arrive
in this city November 7th at 6:Z0
Pm. MIR. H. A. Durand, General
Manager OF the Pullman Car Com
many. sent four sleepers to accommo-
date this party.
Raymond & Whitcomb's Pullman
Vestibule-Car excursion will arrive
the evening Of the 10Th from Boston
and returns on the 2lst. This will be
the first vestibule train ever In Cali
fornia, and is great curiosity. 1t Is
said to be the finest train OF cars ever
run TO California. 1t will come in on
the Santa Fe road.
An excursion left Boston, Mass.
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock with
800 or 400 persons, most OF whom are
bound for Los Angeles; some 60 to
San Francisco and others to San
Diego, but ne-tenths of them are
booked for this City and immediate
vicinity. Phillips & Company have
this in charge.
Some large repair gangs are being
put to work on the Southern Pacific
road between Indio and Yuma, a dis
tance of fifty miles. Seventy-fve men
were sent out ON Tuesday morning
and made into three gangs. More
were sent yesterday and the whole
road repaired between the points
named. The work will last all winter,
when the road will be as fine as any
in the country.
w. N. Monroe, Of Monrovia, was
in the City Tuesday in the interest OF
the Rapid Transit Railway. About
ten miles of the road are already
graded and the company now desires
tho privilege Of coming into the City
from the bluff north of the covered
bridge vn an elevated track with an
iron bridge over Alameda street and
landing passengers at the Plaza This
now line will be OF vast importance tc
the City OF Los Angeles and the San
Gabriel Valley. 1t will only carry
passengers and will handle no freight
M. A. Hechtman has been appointed
agent of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company with headquarters in Los
Angeles, and will have iull charge 0.
it's freight and passenger business in
Southern California and will report te
the general agent at San Francisco
The appointment took effect Tuesday
This is good news for Mr.. Hechtman
and all who know him will be glad tt
learn Of his good fortune. He de
serves the promotion, as every one
who knows him can tell, and it will bt
especially agreeable now that it comes
Just as he is recovering from a broker
ankle.
Mr.. J. NJ. Victor, superintendent O
this division of the Atchison, Topeks
and Santa Fe, is in San Bernardino
consulting with the authorities about
the new freight depot to be erected in
place of the one lately burned. Mr.
+. T. Perris. the Chief Engineer, was
in the city Tuesday looking the ground
over, but went back to San Bernardint
in short time without saying whai
would be done. except that a frame
building would be erected on the ole
site as soon as the materials could b
received from San Diego.